Let’s Yalla again!
Quite possibly Geneva’s most idiosyncratic outfit of the moment, Yalla Miku follow up their mind-melting 2023 debut with volume two, entitled, naturally, “Yalla Miku- 2”. As the group is led by the two Cyrils, Bondi (drums) and Yeterian, co-founder of the trend-setting inner city record shop/bar/café/studio/live venue Bongo Joe, it comes as no surprise that […]
Pekodjinn Taping the Street
Tunisian-born producer Pekodjinn follows up his mind-bending debut LP, “Dharba” (2023) with another salvo of percussive dynamite, “TN TAPE”. The album is out now via Geneva’s habitually groundbreaking Bongo Joe label in cooperation with Les Disques Magnétiques. “Constantly searching, Pekodjinn spends hours tweaking his machines in his small home studio, driving his roommates carazy”, it […]
Leoni Leoni Celebrates Her Debut Album
3 June 2022 sees the release of “Leoni Leoni”, the debut album proper – after four long-playing cassettes! – of the Bernese artist, Leoni Leoni, via the super-trusty folks at Les Disques Bongo Joe. Leoni Leoni – aka New York New York – hadn’t even reached her teenage years when she began to experiment with […]
L’Eclair Creating Confusions
12 November 2021 sees the release via Bongo Joe Records of a new album from Genevan sextet L’Eclair. Called “Confusions”, it is the band’s fourth, and yet another example to show that the slowed down pace of lockdown was not all bad for the soul. Forced to suspend their incessant rounds of touring the world […]
New improved Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp becoming even more surrealistic and powerful!
Incredibly, for their third album, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp have become even madder, badder and – most importantly – more exciting. Bass players, it is sometimes said, are crazier than drummers. Bassist Vincent Bertholet certainly is. He formed the Duchamps in 2006 in the image of his own thrilling self. A band that wouldn’t […]
